For your average retail bank customer you’d be lucky to get anything on your savings as is for the last 10 years. I’m speaking from the US bank perspective, but

For your average retail bank customer you’d be lucky to get anything on your savings as is for the last 10 years. I’m speaking from the US bank perspective, but I imagine it has been the same or worse in Germany. The saving grace in the US is the somewhat recent trend of online banks offering around 2%. I don’t know if other developed countries in the Eurozone have similar offerings.